post malone ergo propter malone: combo head of state/head of government is a bitch

i don’t actually know this, this isn’t a rhetorical question, but, like, do other representative democracies expect that their heads of state maintain 14-16 hour a day, 7 day a week schedules, or is that just specific to our national obsession with looking busy?

combo head of state/head of government is a bitch

I think the campaigning also sucks up far more of his time than the government job, and the associated travel is a bitch.

But like ultimately, we don't really have ANY specific expectation for the president's working hours, and we don't have any real expectations for the president's *work*. What are you supposed to do all day? What do any of them do all day?

The central part of the job is to make decisions; that basically requires choosing between proposals by different subordinates on various matters.

And all the easy decisions have already been made by your subordinates.

You’d think there is enough to do as President without throwing in wreath-layings; state dinners; turkey pardonings.

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